Name

basename

Synopsis

basename (fullname[, suffixlist])

Description

Returns the first element of the list that would be produced if you called fileparse with the same arguments. Provides compatibility with the Unix basename command. Takes the following arguments:

fullname

Input file specification

suffixlist

Optional list containing patterns to be matched against the end of fullname to find the suffix

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